Outcry after Ambassador Mike Huckabee suggests Israel has God-given right to Middle East land

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Arab states have reacted with fury after U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee suggested Israel has a biblical right to take over large swaths of the Middle East. “It would be fine if they took it all, but I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here today,” Huckabee told podcaster Tucker Carlson during an interview posted on YouTube on Friday, as the two discussed his Christian Zionist beliefs and interpretations of the Old Testament regarding land promised to Abraham's descendants,